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Japan is the first country that insisted the Elimination of Racial Discrimination at the international conference. The proposal at Paris Peace Conference 1919 was overturned by the ruling of the conference chairman Woodrow Wilson despite majority of the favor votes. The riots across the United States were caused by Black who got angry for the ruling of own country's president.

If you are able to search the news articles published in 1934, maybe you can search those published in December 1937 and January 1938.

December 13, 1937 is the date when Nanking fell into the hands of the Japanese Army. Can you find the report of the massacre around that date?

The witnesses of the Nanking Massacre (e.g. John Magee) who appeared in the 1946 Tokyo Tribunal in person testified that the large part of the Massacre had taken place immediately after the fall of the city into the Japanese Army.

Watch the film of testimony by John Magee at the 1946 Tokyo Tribunal below.Japanese War Crimes-Military Tribunal For The Far East 4/15 (time 3:16 – 4:45)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGpXyo6RXYEThe “Rape of Nanking” by Iris Chang states that the massacre lasted for the first 6 weeks immediately after the fall of the city.

If their statements are true, there must have been news reports of the massacre in late December or early January, since there were U.S. newspaper reporters such as Frank Tilman Durdin of the New York Times in Nanking at that time and U.S. and British gunboats stationed in Shanghai for protection of their people living in the concessions (meaning that no westerners were killed in the battle and they were safely brought back home.)